Grant Purcell
New member
Hello all. Although I am new to this forum, I am not new to weight loss. Having been overweight majority of my childhood and 240 lbs with no muscular build at all in high school. I didn’t have the ability to read threads, have a trainer, buy equipment, or even friends/family to ask.
I simply had a breakdown of sorts in my brain, being tired of not having a girlfriend and being “friend zoned” by the ones I chased. I was a very nice, caring, thoughtful person yet couldn’t get anywhere and it sank in that all the guys these girls got together with were skinny or in shape. This is normal as we need to be mentally and physically attracted to the person.
I decided to lose weight and to, in a way, have a “look at me now” to all those who turned me down. I started out with my portable disc player (yeah, didn’t even have an iPod or phone to play music) and headed out early morning before too much traffic as I was self conscious about my fat bouncing around and people seeing me.
I couldn’t run long before I had to walk, then ran more...then walked, repeating this until gradually being able to run long distance before a breather walk. I started doing setups at home after running, just as much as I could (which wasn’t much) at a time and throughout the day.
While doing this, specially running, I had carefully selected music...music that was “in touch” with why I was doing this. This is what motivated me every day to do this, I got excited to go run every day because of the music and this is why.
Call it using your imagination, we all have it even as we get older, we just call it fantasies. I would imagine myself singing these songs and in the crowed of people, were those who I would have liked to say these things to. I would imagine being in top shape singing that song and having the “how do you like me now” feeling.
Imagining the one day when I’m in top shape going shopping and run into one of those girls who turned me down because I wasn’t physically attractive to them...but now I am, and seeing their expressions. Maybe even have a chance to start over with one of them?
It happens, it could happen to anyone, that’s why there are love stories about it.
Psychology is a key ingredient in starting and maintaining physical fitness. If your overweight, I’m sure you have insecurities about it whether your already married and worry about your significant other not finding you physically attractive anymore and looking at other people, or if your single and wanting a partner. Let your imagination fly (or fantasies) while you workout.
This is my two cents worth for those who are just starting in the journey to lose weight and workout. If your already in shape, it can still help maintaining it as I still use music as a psychological boost every run! Hope this helps some and glad to be part of this community.
I simply had a breakdown of sorts in my brain, being tired of not having a girlfriend and being “friend zoned” by the ones I chased. I was a very nice, caring, thoughtful person yet couldn’t get anywhere and it sank in that all the guys these girls got together with were skinny or in shape. This is normal as we need to be mentally and physically attracted to the person.
I decided to lose weight and to, in a way, have a “look at me now” to all those who turned me down. I started out with my portable disc player (yeah, didn’t even have an iPod or phone to play music) and headed out early morning before too much traffic as I was self conscious about my fat bouncing around and people seeing me.
I couldn’t run long before I had to walk, then ran more...then walked, repeating this until gradually being able to run long distance before a breather walk. I started doing setups at home after running, just as much as I could (which wasn’t much) at a time and throughout the day.
While doing this, specially running, I had carefully selected music...music that was “in touch” with why I was doing this. This is what motivated me every day to do this, I got excited to go run every day because of the music and this is why.
Call it using your imagination, we all have it even as we get older, we just call it fantasies. I would imagine myself singing these songs and in the crowed of people, were those who I would have liked to say these things to. I would imagine being in top shape singing that song and having the “how do you like me now” feeling.
Imagining the one day when I’m in top shape going shopping and run into one of those girls who turned me down because I wasn’t physically attractive to them...but now I am, and seeing their expressions. Maybe even have a chance to start over with one of them?
It happens, it could happen to anyone, that’s why there are love stories about it.
Psychology is a key ingredient in starting and maintaining physical fitness. If your overweight, I’m sure you have insecurities about it whether your already married and worry about your significant other not finding you physically attractive anymore and looking at other people, or if your single and wanting a partner. Let your imagination fly (or fantasies) while you workout.
This is my two cents worth for those who are just starting in the journey to lose weight and workout. If your already in shape, it can still help maintaining it as I still use music as a psychological boost every run! Hope this helps some and glad to be part of this community.